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A glacial flood was the biggest on record. But Juneau’s makeshift dirt wall held.

The Washington Post · last updated

The record-breaking surge of water that burst from an Alaskan glacier this week was mostly contained by the temporary levee built in Juneau to prevent the type of flood damage that blasted the city the past two summers, officials said Wednesday.

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